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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The migrant workers were increasing the state and county costs for what during the Dust Bowl period in California?
(a) Jobs.
(b) Medical care and education.
(c) City officials.
(d) Police and fire attendants.

2. In what year did the winds of the Dust Bowl finally subside?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1935.

3. What couple is described as having loaded up their family in Hollis, Oklahoma, in 1938 to head west?
(a) The Andersons.
(b) The Rosses.
(c) The Masters.
(d) The Smiths.

4. What did the headlines scream in California in Chapter Four?
(a) Okies were invading.
(b) The West was Won.
(c) California was sinking.
(d) Okies were diseased.

5. It was said that the farms in California were needing how many farm laborers during the period of the Dust Bowl?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Millions.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

2. What man gave hope to the suffering Okie children in the end of Chapter Four?

3. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?

4. In what year did the Department of Agriculture began the construction of farm-labor camps for the Okies?

5. What half of Colorado was a part of the Dust Bowl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the influx of farm workers do to the agricultural economy when they arrived?

2. How does Jerry Stanley describe the Oklahoma Panhandle farmers of the 1930s?

3. What did the Federal Government do to help the Okies? When?

4. Where was the geographical region known as the Dust Bowl? What did the dust do to the farms?

5. Who suffered the most from prejudice among the Okies? Why?

6. Where did many families head once they arrived in California? What cities were looking for farmhands?

7. When did the great migration west begin? Who traveled this route?

8. Describe the Weedpatch Camp. Where was it located?

9. How were the Okies living in the federal camps treated by the community? Why?

10. What stereotypes were the Okies identified by? What happened to Okies who tried to defend themselves?

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